A.I. Evangelist Ruthlessly Roasted for Saying That ‘Sitcoms Will Never Be the Same’ After This Unholy ‘Friends’ Abomination

According to the proponents of generative artificial intelligence technology, popular sitcoms such as Friends will soon be rendered obsolete by robot-made videos of “human beings” laughing, smiling and morphing into a mass of limbs and flesh that would make Hieronymus Bosch shit his pants.

Ever since the many over-promising, under-delivering and investment-collecting companies of the A.I. industry first started releasing tools that can generate video files from text prompts, techno-futurists with minimal understanding of artistic pursuits have been bragging that their mastery of Sora will soon usurp the archaic human creatives of the entertainment industry. But while the use of generative A.I. tools in animation, video editing and movie poster design remains one of the most hotly debated topics in Hollywood, so far, no fully A.I.-generated project has yet received a series order from Netflix, Hulu or linear TV networks.

That, however, could be about to change, if generative A.I. influencer and soon-to-be sitcom magnate TechHalla is correct. Earlier this week, TechHalla went uber-viral when he reposted a terrifying fever dream in the shape of a Friends episode that he believes will change situational comedy forever:

Despite his hyperbolic praise of the above clip, TechHalla didn’t create this monstrosity — it’s the work of fellow A.I. enthusiast fofr using the creative engine LTX-2: Pro. fofr isn’t quite as impressed with their creation as is TechHalla, naming the clip “The One with the Weird AI,” and writing, “Outputs seem to not know likenesses, but they do know the voices.” 

However, while the voices featured in the video do sound like David Schwimmer and Matthew Perry, the many sitcom fans who remain unconvinced of A.I.'s pending takeover of the comedy industry aren’t about to convert to the A.I. cult when the robots can’t make “Ross” complete a single intelligible sentence — or when they don’t know how many hands Rachel is supposed to have:

As many Twitter users pointed out, TechHalla’s hypothesis that generative A.I. will change sitcoms forever certainly takes a hit from the fact that an A.I. model, trained on existing artistic material made by human beings, can’t even recreate the very stolen footage that trained it without turning Friends into a jumbled mess of clones and floating guitars.

Once again, the tech bros who believe that their expertise in generative A.I. technology will make up for their complete and utter lack of artistic discernment have demonstrated that they don’t understand the industries they’re trying to disrupt, and they probably never will. However, while this viral A.I. Friends slop won’t redefine the sitcom genre for generations to come, it did accomplish an achievement that no A.I. enthusiast could ever pull off before the invention of LTX-2: Pro: It made funny people laugh.